Philippians 3:3-14
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3 For it is we who are the circumcision, who worship in the Spirit of God[a] and boast in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh(A)— 4 even though I, too, have reason for confidence in the flesh.
If anyone else has reason to be confident in the flesh, I have more: 5 circumcised on the eighth day, a member of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;(B) 6 as to zeal, a persecutor of the church; as to righteousness under the law, blameless.
7 Yet whatever gains I had, these I have come to regard as loss because of Christ.(C) 8 More than that, I regard everything as loss because of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and I regard them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ(D) 9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law but one that comes through faith in Christ,[b] the righteousness from God based on faith.(E) 10 I want to know Christ[c] and the power of his resurrection and the sharing of his sufferings by becoming like him in his death, 11 if somehow I may attain the resurrection from the dead.(F)
Pressing toward the Goal
12 Not that I have already obtained this or have already reached the goal,[d] but I press on to lay hold of that for which Christ[e] has laid hold of me.(G) 13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider that I have laid hold[f] of it, but one thing I have laid hold of: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,(H) 14 I press on toward the goal, toward the prize of the heavenly[g] call of God in Christ Jesus.(I)
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